Jianghan Plain

Jianghan Plain(Chinese:Giang hán bình nguyên;pinyin: Jiānghàn Píngyuán), named for the confluence of theYangtze('Jiang') andHan('han')rivers,is analluvial plainlocated in the middle and south ofHubei,China.Wuhan,the most populous city inCentral China,^[1]is located on the plain. It shares the border withDongtinghu Plain.It has an area of more than 30 thousands square kilometers. The region was once a large wetland, but was gradually colonized by settlers beginning in the Neolithic period.^[2]This accelerated when the state ofChuestablished its capital there in the middle of the 1st millennium BC, and when the Qin and Han states built dikes to protect farmland from seasonal floods.^[3]The Jianghan area has been an important food grain region of China since at least theMing Dynasty.^[4]

References

^"Focus on Wuhan, China".The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. Archived fromthe originalon December 12, 2013.RetrievedFebruary 10,2013.
^Zhang Chi, “The Qujialing-Shijiahe Culture in the Middle Yangzi River Valley,” in A Companion to Chinese Archaeology, ed. Anne P. Underhill (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2013), 510–34; Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, Ancient Central China: Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
^Brian Lander, “State Management of River Dikes in Early China: New Sources on the Environmental History of the Central Yangzi Region.” T’oung Pao 100 (2014): 287-324.
^Zhang, Jiayan (1 May 2014).Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949.UBC Press. p. 265.ISBN 978-0-7748-2597-9.

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[Focus_on_Wuhan,_China-1] "Focus on Wuhan, China".The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service. Archived fromthe originalon December 12, 2013.RetrievedFebruary 10,2013.

[2] Zhang Chi, “The Qujialing-Shijiahe Culture in the Middle Yangzi River Valley,” in A Companion to Chinese Archaeology, ed. Anne P. Underhill (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2013), 510–34; Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, Ancient Central China: Centers and Peripheries along the Yangzi River (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

[3] Brian Lander, “State Management of River Dikes in Early China: New Sources on the Environmental History of the Central Yangzi Region.” T’oung Pao 100 (2014): 287-324.

[Zhang2014-4] Zhang, Jiayan (1 May 2014).Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949.UBC Press. p. 265.ISBN 978-0-7748-2597-9.

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